Medicated or tonic beer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES H. KLUBER, ()F DODGE CITY, KANSAS.

MEDICATED OR TONlC BEER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,250, dated July 17, 1888.

Application filed Deeeml er 8. IP87.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that l, MosEs H. KLUBER. of Dodge City, in the county of Ford and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Beverages, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My beverage is an improved beer which is healthful, palatable, and not intoxicating, and therefore adapted for use by all classes of persons.

The ingredients of and manner of making the beer are as follows:

Ingredients and their pr0p0rt1I0ns.Fou rtecn ounces malt; seven ounces rye-flour; ouehalf ounce ground calainus-root; one-fifth ounce crushed Spearmint, (leaves and stems;) one fourth ounce hops; one fourth ounce alcohol, (by measure;) one-tenth ounce lemon-oil. (by measure;) onebalt ounce fresh yeast; one half ounce lemon-peel; sixteen ounces sugar, and three gallons water.

fllode of making the bcer.For con vcniencc, two vats or tubs may be employed, and one of them provided with a strainer-bottom, and each with a' faucet for drawing off its contents. Mix the malt and rye'tlour moistened with a small quantity of warm water, and let the mass stand twelve hours. Then knead it intoa stifl dough and roll the latter into atlatsheet, about one inch thick, and cut into pieces about six inches in diameter. Bake these pieces until hard and brown (not burned) in an oven heated Serial No. 257.256. (No specimens.)

to a low degree. Then break the cakes thus produced into small bits, which place in two gallons of boiling water. When they have dissolved, add the remaining gallon of water, (cold) Cover the mixture at short time-say one hour-and finally strain the infusion thus obtained. Next put the calamusroot, spearmint, hops, and lemon-peel into one gallon of this malt-infusion, and boil, say, ten minutes. Dissolve the sugar in Onehall' gallon of the lllalhillfUSlOll, strain the solution and add to the infusion, along with the boilinginfusion of ealamus, Spearmint, &c., and lot the mixture stand covered until its temperature shall have lowered fil'teen or twenty degrees. Then dissolve the yeast in asmall quantity of the mixture, strain thcsolulion and put in the alcohol and lemon extract, and add the whole to the said mixture. Now let the latter stand eight to ten hours, until a white froth or foam appears, which will indicate that the beer is made and ready to be put in bottles or other receptacles for use.

\Vhat I claim is- A beverage composed ol" malt, rye flour,calamus, Spearmint, hops, alcohol, lemon extract, yeast, lemon-peel, sugar, and water, in about the proportions above stated.

MOSES H. KLUBER.

XVitnesses:

JAMES MQCURELY, LoUIs KLUBER. 

